Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-08
SAVANNAH MOkNLNG NEWS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY s. 1884,

meeting OF the citizens OF Seville was
held Monday night in Morrison's Hall 10
consider the subject of Incorporation.
The meeting being called 20 order by T. A.
Foster, Gen. K. II. Mason was elected
Chairman and j. n. Burton Secretary.
The legal preliminaries 10 Incorporation
were explained by b. NJ. Miller. II was
then decided that the corporate limits
should extend one mile north and south
and mile and quarter east and west.
There have been several important
business changes and removals at Starke
lately. T. A. Knight and ID. l.. Alvarez
have united their stock OF goods and BUSH
ness under the firm name of Knight II
Alvarez. B. II. Jones has Withdrawn
from the firm of y. j. Jones & Co. and
commenced business under hehrm name
OF B. IL. Jones & Co. The firm Of sweat
Il Crews has dissolved, and is now con-
Quoted by T. W. Sweat. Mr.. Sweat is
just moving into his new store building.
Capt. w. B. Avery, OF Keuka, says that
thirteen Of the purchasers OF land in Ma
riOn county through his efforts who reside
In Boston, have come up promptly with
their taxes and show every disposition 10
stick. 1t is good sign to see parties pay
their taxes promptly. 1t means that they
are satisfied with their investments and
Will hold on, Notwithstanding the hard
times. Boston people are good at holding
on. the Captain also says that he has
caused TO be cleared ten acres of land this
season and set out with large orange
trees.
The orange trees in the vicinity Of
Starke are yet uninjured, not even
young tree killed or damaged to ny eX-
tent. The crop of 1886 was good both in
quantity and good prices realized. This
fact will start the orange boom again.
The Pennsylvania grove has 100 acres in
trees, while groves of five to lorty acres
are scattered all over the county. Brad
ford county people have demonstrated the
fact that orange trees can successfully
be grown in the flat woods Of Florida.
Strawberries are also becoming quite an
important crop. The area planted being
doubled yearly and the public interest in
creased in more than like proportion.
Last week Hon. william Bryson, of
Live Oak, discovered that one Of his
trunks had been broken open, and gold
watch, gold lOcket, about $50 in gold, and
several other articles of value taken
therefrOm. suspicion at once rested on
one George Williams, a young cOlOred
man who was in Mr.. Bryson's employ.
Search being made for him 1t was found
that he mad skipped by the way Of the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western railway,
having purchased a ticket for Chatta
ho1chee Via Dupont. The telegraph was
brought into requistion and Williams
was oyerhauled at Chattahoochee. Sew
eral Of the missing articles were found
on his person, and he made sufficient con-
fessiOn to warrant Judge Phillips in com.
mltting him to jail.
Ocala Banner: Edward Foster, who is
so well known to our business commu-
nifty as the former efficient manager OF
the lOO-acre Foster grove at South Lake
Weir, and largely interested in lands at
that place, from Clyde, Kan, arrived at
the Lakeside Hotel last Friday night, &C
compaDied by his wife and brother,
Henry, to spend a short season in recrea-
ton and business. MIR. Foster is at pres
ent engaged in the banking business in
Clyde, Kan, while his brother Henry is
also largely Interested in fiscal institu-
tion in Independence, Kan, and is one Of
Jay GOuld's railroad presidents in that
billiards. wept State, besides part owner
of a 160,000-acre calf pasture, with forty
miles of river front through it, and 5000
cattle roaming over it and fatIening on
its rich nutriel0us grasses.
In Hamilton county Thursday Perry
b. Register and another youth VINO bad a
bottle of gunpowder in his pocket, decided
to burst it by putting paper stopper in
il to act as fuse. They fired the end and
threw it behind tree. 1t DID not fire as
soon as the boy thought 1t ought, and he
got over IL and comm enced blowing the
fire, when it exploded within four inches
of his face, burning his hair and eve
brows off, knocking him speeches. and
apparently dead for a moment, and set
ting his clothes on fire. Had he not been
rescued by parties near by he would have
been burned to death on the spot. DR.. } q.
4. W. Smith was called as soon as posi-
bic, and thinks he Will be able to save
him. lie is suffering severely, and it is
feared that a piece OF the glass bottle
went in his mouth and down his throat.